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I love our Toy Test. Every year we bring in the Clear Kids, and let them test all the hottest toys for the year. This time, we’re taking the event to the food hall at St. Vital Centre next Saturday. By the way, if you would like your child to be a part of the test, just get to www.102clearfm.com, and use your reward points for a chance to join us!

Do you wonder about some of these toys? Just how safe are they? I came across this list of the 10 Most Dangerous Toys on the market this year, according to the World Against Toys Causing Harm (or W.A.T.C.H.) It might be worth a look!

**photo courtesy Winnipeg Free Press

The city’s new diamond lanes go into effect today. You’ll want to watch the signs very closely, as they’re not all being enforced at the same time:

Portage Avenue:

• Westbound from Colony to Strathcona (07:00 – 09:00 and 15:30 – 17:30)
• Eastbound from Raglan to St. Mary (07:00 – 09:00 and 15:30 – 17:30)

Main Street:

• Southbound from Smithfield to Jarvis (07:00 – 09:00 only)
• Northbound from Jarvis to Inkster (15:30 – 17:30 only)

Goulet Street:

• Westbound from Youville to Tache (07:00 – 09:00 only)

McPhillips Street:

• Southbound from Hillock to William (07:00 – 09:00 and 15:30 – 17:30)

If you get caught in of the lanes, you might get dinged with a $190.80 fine and 2 demerit points!

Do you think more people would take the stairs if it was a little more exciting? They say the average adult should get about 10,000 steps in per day. I’m pretty sure I’d be stepping A LOT more if we could do this

This is one groovy dog! Sort of puts my Sasha’s “shake a paw” trick to shame! lol

This is such a “teachable” moment for our kids. Violence against women is just not acceptable. It’s not right, it’s not cool, and it happens more often than we would like to think. Rihanna talks for the first time about the story the entire world was talking about, what happened to her, and why she doesn’t want it to happen again.

Get the entire Rihanna interview on 20/20 tonight.

You’ve all probably heard the heartbreaking story of Ashley Neufeld from Brandon.  She and 2 of her friends drowned when their vehicle sunk into a farm pond while on a stargazing trip. You can read more about it here.

This story actually made CNN. I only found out this morning that this sort of thing happens to about 40 people every year in Canada – that number is far too high, and this video just might save your life.

This seems to change every time we turn our backs, but here’s the LATEST priority list for people wanting the H1N1 vaccine: **Thanks to chrisd.ca**

Those who can now get the shot are:

• Children aged six months to under five years old;
• Anyone of Aboriginal ancestry;
• Disadvantaged individuals (for example, the homeless);
• People living in remote or isolated areas;
• People under 65 with a chronic medical condition or other risks including severe obesity, substance abuse or alcoholism;
• Anyone with a weakened immune system or those who live with or care for them;
• Those who live with or care for infants under six months old;
• Single parents or anyone solely responsible for a dependent;
• Health-care workers and medical first responders; and
• Pregnant women.

About 12,000 doses are available right now, with another 8,000 arriving later this week.

Clinics are open from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. today (Thursday) and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday.

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Here’s the priority list that’s being enforced at the clinics this week:

Children aged six months to under five years old;

Anyone of Aboriginal ancestry (First Nations, Metis or Inuit);

People under 55 with a severe chronic medical or other risk condition; andPregnant women.

Today, they’ve expanded the list to include:

-Hospitals’ emergency room and intensive care staff

-Community primary care doctors.

Remember, if you’re not on the list, you won’t get the shot. Clinics are open today and tomorrow from 9:30am – 8pm.

Today is the only day this week you’ll be able to get the vaccination shot, and only if you’re on the priority list. The WRHA released a scaled version of the priority list for today (Monday)

• Children aged six months to under five years old;
• Anyone of Aboriginal ancestry (First Nations, Metis or Inuit);
• People under 55 with a severe chronic medical or other risk condition; and
• Pregnant women.

If you’re NOT on this list, you will NOT receive the vaccination shot today. Keep in mind clinic hours are from 9:30am – 8pm today only.

Manitoba will only receive 15,500 doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine this week, a far cry from the expected 72,000 doses from the federal government.